Micro-Affirmations: The Power to Make Others Feel Good

  Making someone feel good doesn’t cost anything. Even so, not everyone makes the effort to do so. Perhaps they don’t do it because life goes by extremely fast, pressures are many, and self-interest outweighs collective well-being. Yet, many realities would change if we all did our part to validate the identity, worth, and efforts of those around us. It’s a sad fact that micro-aggressions are frequently encountered. They’re subtle, but clearly harmful interactions that seek to discredit, undervalue, and even attack another person because of their sex, race, or condition. They’re experiences that occur all too often in work…